8M at the UB: reflecting on equality and diversity in a context of global regression
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Equality
(28/02/2025)
The University of Barcelona is commemorating International Women’s Day with the institutional session “Equality and diversity in danger: how to avoid regression”, which will take place on Friday 7 March at 11.30 am in the Aula Magna (UB’s Historic Building). Organized by the UB’s Equality Unit, the session will focus on the dangers that threaten the rights acquired in terms of gender and diversity in a political and social context marked by the rise of ultraconservative movements.
News
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Institutional
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Equality
28/02/2025
The University of Barcelona is commemorating International Women’s Day with the institutional session “Equality and diversity in danger: how to avoid regression”, which will take place on Friday 7 March at 11.30 am in the Aula Magna (UB’s Historic Building). Organized by the UB’s Equality Unit, the session will focus on the dangers that threaten the rights acquired in terms of gender and diversity in a political and social context marked by the rise of ultraconservative movements.
The activity will start with a round table discussion with experts on communication, law and anthropology. They will analyse how reactionary policies are dismantling diversity, equality and inclusion programmes, and how these discourses contribute to generating a climate of regression in terms of social rights. The round table will be chaired by Núria Ferran Ferrer, director of the UB’s Equality Unit, and will include the participation of Anna Clua, professor of communication at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and researcher at the UB’s group Espais Crítics, focused on analysing the far right and its influence on public opinion; Lorena Garrido, lecturer of philosophy of law at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and researcher at the Grupo Antígona, expert in women’s rights and legal advice; and Rosa Lázaro Castellanos, lecturer at the UB and researcher in migration and decolonial feminism, who will address the intersection between gender, migration and social hierarchies.
This will be followed by a presentation of the UB Women’s portal, a space promoted by the UB’s Learning and Research Resources Centre (CRAI), which brings together the legacy of important women in the academic and scientific spheres. The presentation will be given by Rosa Fabeiro, head of the Technical Treatment Unit at CRAI UB, who will explain the project’s content and objectives.
The event will close with the presentation of the Rosalind Franklin Awards for the best master’s degree final projects with a gender perspective for the 2023-2024 academic year, an initiative funded by the Catalan Women’s Institute and the Vice-Rector’s Office for Equality and Gender. The awards will be given to several research projects on different fields of knowledge, including the arts and humanities, social and legal sciences, health sciences and experimental sciences.
Before finishing this event, the 8M manifesto drawn up by the Women and Science Committee of the Inter-University Council of Catalonia will be read out, denouncing the attacks on equality policies and the use of hate speech to halt progress in the rights of women and discriminated groups, while calling for the need to strengthen institutional strategies to guarantee a fairer and more inclusive society.
The University is having many more activities on the occasion of 8M, you can check them out on this website.
This will be followed by a presentation of the UB Women’s portal, a space promoted by the UB’s Learning and Research Resources Centre (CRAI), which brings together the legacy of important women in the academic and scientific spheres. The presentation will be given by Rosa Fabeiro, head of the Technical Treatment Unit at CRAI UB, who will explain the project’s content and objectives.
The event will close with the presentation of the Rosalind Franklin Awards for the best master’s degree final projects with a gender perspective for the 2023-2024 academic year, an initiative funded by the Catalan Women’s Institute and the Vice-Rector’s Office for Equality and Gender. The awards will be given to several research projects on different fields of knowledge, including the arts and humanities, social and legal sciences, health sciences and experimental sciences.
Before finishing this event, the 8M manifesto drawn up by the Women and Science Committee of the Inter-University Council of Catalonia will be read out, denouncing the attacks on equality policies and the use of hate speech to halt progress in the rights of women and discriminated groups, while calling for the need to strengthen institutional strategies to guarantee a fairer and more inclusive society.
The University is having many more activities on the occasion of 8M, you can check them out on this website.